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chamber, sit years ago in the summer of 1963 comments by a thick so many in my generation that president john f. kennedy and his call to service. i spent that summer rate here in the senate as an intern for my home state senator, he burmah koff. he was then renamed and other personal hero mine. although i never would've said that it so publicly that and because it was so presumptuous, i came away from that experience is a dream that i might someday, somehow returned to serve in this place. i've been blessed to have had during that is what america is all about. we have always been a nation of dreamers whose destiny is determined only by the balance of our own imagination and by our willingness to work hard to realize what we've imagine. indeed come on before the united states came into being as a government of institutions of laws, it is a dream, and implausible, incredible training can animated by state of a country defined not by its borders on or by its rulers, nor by ethnicity of its founders, but by a set of eternal and universal principles of life, liberty and pursuit is often assert tha
chamber, sit years ago in the summer of 1963 comments by a thick so many in my generation that president john f. kennedy and his call to service. i spent that summer rate here in the senate as an intern for my home state senator, he burmah koff. he was then renamed and other personal hero mine. although i never would've said that it so publicly that and because it was so presumptuous, i came away from that experience is a dream that i might someday, somehow returned to serve in this place. i've...
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she had actually, before she worked for us, worked for senators john andly con chafee -- john and lincoln chafee. when i was a marine i worked on john chafee's staff when he was secretary of the navy. i would challenge anybody to rebut we have had the best staff on capitol hill. we set up a communications shop. jessica smith, kimberly hunter, two very talented and invaluable communicators who understood the job was not simply to respond to media requests but to proactively explain what we were doing, what our purposes were, what our goals were, what the philosophical approach that we were taking happened to be, to local and national media, rather than simply entertaining interview requests and those sorts of things. on a state level, we were able to have conoway haskins and louise ware set up an administrative structure where we were constantly able to listen and respond to the needs and opinions of people throughout this extraordinarily complex demographic jurisdiction that is the commonwealth of virginia. sometimes we forget about what happens on these phones here when we're off in our
she had actually, before she worked for us, worked for senators john andly con chafee -- john and lincoln chafee. when i was a marine i worked on john chafee's staff when he was secretary of the navy. i would challenge anybody to rebut we have had the best staff on capitol hill. we set up a communications shop. jessica smith, kimberly hunter, two very talented and invaluable communicators who understood the job was not simply to respond to media requests but to proactively explain what we were...
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Dec 12, 2012
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enfired like so many of my generation by president john f. kennedy and his call to service. i spent that summer right here in the senate as an intern for my home state senator, abe ribakov. he was and remains a personal hero of mine. and although i never would have admitted so publicly back then because it was so presumptuous, i came away from that experience with the dream that i might someday, somehow return to serve in this place. well, i have been blessed to live that dream, and that is what america is all about. we have always been a nation of dreamers whose destiny is determined only by the bounds of our own imagination and by our willingness to work hard to realize what we have imagined. indeed, long before the united states came into being as a government of institutions and laws, it was a dream, a dream, an an implausible and animated dream of a country not defined by its borders or its rulers or the ethnicity of its founders but by a set of eternal and universal principles that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are god's endowment to each of us. that was t
enfired like so many of my generation by president john f. kennedy and his call to service. i spent that summer right here in the senate as an intern for my home state senator, abe ribakov. he was and remains a personal hero of mine. and although i never would have admitted so publicly back then because it was so presumptuous, i came away from that experience with the dream that i might someday, somehow return to serve in this place. well, i have been blessed to live that dream, and that is...
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Dec 11, 2012
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that's senator john cornyn. amending our rules at the beginning of a congress is not breaking the rules to change the rules. it is reaffirming that the u.s. constitution is superior to the senate rules, and when there is a conflict between them, we follow the constitution. i find some of the rhetoric about amending our rules particularly troubling. we've heard comments that any such reforms if done by a majority would destroy the senate. again, i can turn to ply my republican colleagues to answer this accusation. in 2005, the republican policy committee released a memo entitled "the constitutional option, the senate's power to make procedural rules by majority vote." that memo supports the same arguments i make today for reform by a majority. and it also refutes many of the recent claims about how the senate will be permanently damaged. one section of the memo titled "common misunderstandings of the constitutional option" is especially interesting and enlightening. it responds to the argument that the essential
that's senator john cornyn. amending our rules at the beginning of a congress is not breaking the rules to change the rules. it is reaffirming that the u.s. constitution is superior to the senate rules, and when there is a conflict between them, we follow the constitution. i find some of the rhetoric about amending our rules particularly troubling. we've heard comments that any such reforms if done by a majority would destroy the senate. again, i can turn to ply my republican colleagues to...
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one is trying to herd cats known as the republican conference and the's is being junior senator to john mccain. jon kyl does it in the right way. he has the temperament of a leader. he adopted 38 legislative years from the georgia legislature to the united states congress. i've known a lot of whips, a lot who cracked the whip, who were ineffective and very few who were effective and jon kyl is the most effective whip i've worked with or seen. he knows the issues and the ability to communicate them. he knows the importance and how to put the party ahead of individual priorities but to keep the country first no matter what it is. one good example mr. president. we were debating the start treaty which is very important for the united states and the president was on the foreign relations committee when we had that debate. he might remember there were people concerned about the modernization of our nuclear arsenal while we were renewing the start treaty and would what we would do while we made a new treaty in terms of modernization. it was jon kyl's leadership working with senator kerry, sec
one is trying to herd cats known as the republican conference and the's is being junior senator to john mccain. jon kyl does it in the right way. he has the temperament of a leader. he adopted 38 legislative years from the georgia legislature to the united states congress. i've known a lot of whips, a lot who cracked the whip, who were ineffective and very few who were effective and jon kyl is the most effective whip i've worked with or seen. he knows the issues and the ability to communicate...